“Going into the bowl games, Northern Illinois had one loss, we had two,” Stoops said. “Theirs was to Iowa, right? Ours were to Notre Dame and K-State. And they’re ranked ahead of us – well, they got the bid to the BCS bowl ahead of us.”

Even if Stoops has an argument, Texas A&M crushing the Sooners 41-13 in the Cotton Bowl undermines it. The irony is the BCS is so rigged to take an underwhelming larger program such as Oklahoma it had to insert the rule that forced a bowl to select Northern Illinois.

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